University Ranking Watch

Discussion and analysis of international university rankings and topics related to the quality of higher education. Anyone wishing to contact Richard Holmes without worrying about ending up in comments can go to rjholmes2000@yahoo.com

Saturday, October 31, 2009

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BREAKING NEWS From Times Higher Education "Times Higher Education has signed an agreement with Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading res...
Friday, October 23, 2009

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The Rise of Asia Part I International university rankings have been around long anough to show signs of long term trends. Making sense of th...
Thursday, October 15, 2009

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More Comments on the THE-QS Rankings "Canadian universities among top 200 in the world should be supported to keep them there " fr...

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More Information at QS A lot more data can now be found at www.topuniversities.com
Tuesday, October 13, 2009

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How They Did It According to university administrators, universities rise in the THE-QS rankings because of enlightened leadership, quality ...
Monday, October 12, 2009

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The 2008 THE-QS Rankings I have hesitated about putting up this post since the missing rankings might be restored in a few days or even hour...
Sunday, October 11, 2009

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Comments on the 2009 THE-QS Rankings America Slips in Rankings of World Universities Brown University Falls The University of Southhamton is...
Thursday, October 08, 2009

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How Universiti Malaya did it A standard feature of the annual release of the THE QS rankings is the chorus of derision that greets the fall ...

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Comments on the 2009 THE-QS Rankings This article by Kris Olds is worth reading. A couple of extracts: "It seems as if the Times Highe...
Wednesday, October 07, 2009

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THE QS 2009 The 2009 rankings top 200 can now be seen here and here .
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Sunday, October 04, 2009

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Four Days To Go Only four days to go before the publication of the 2009 THE-QS World university rankings. The rankings will be published her...
Saturday, August 29, 2009

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University Supercomputers The list of the worlds most powerful computers includes a number operated by universities. Among those in the top...
Sunday, August 23, 2009

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The Quality of Law Schools A recent post raised questions about what it takes to be an education professor in the US. However, a recent exch...
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Saturday, August 22, 2009

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Outcomes-based Education Watch Outcomes-based Education (OBE) is sweeping across Australia, the UK, Malaysia and other countries. I am sure ...
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The Discipline of Rankings This is the title of an article by Michael Sauder and Wendy Nelson Espeland in the American Sociological Review...
Thursday, August 20, 2009

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A Case of Dyslexia The nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court of the United States has focused attention on two cases that came ...

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Commentary on Best Colleges 2010 Rankings Frenzy 09 in Inside Higher Ed Elyse Ashburn in the Chronicle of higher Education Bob Morse on Ma...

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Best Colleges 2010 The US News and WorldReport's Best Colleges 2010 is out. The top ten national universities are : 1 = Harvard and...
Monday, August 17, 2009

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The CCAP/Forbes Rankings The CCAP (Center for College Affordability and Productivity)/Forbes rankings are rather different from the rest, b...

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Only Three Days Left This is from The Morse Code "It's getting very close to the launch of the new America's Best Colleges ra...
Wednesday, August 12, 2009

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Life Imitates Art In 2005 Duke University made an impressive showing in the THES-QS World University Rankings largely because someone at Qua...
Monday, August 10, 2009

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The New Taiwan Rankings The new Performance Ranking of Scientific papers for World Universities is out. This is based on a variety of measu...
Sunday, August 09, 2009

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Selecting for the Supreme Court ... and Perhaps Universities It took a while for me to decide that this article by David G. Savage in the S...
Tuesday, August 04, 2009

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Sharing the Pain From the Hawaii Star-Bulletin David Ross, chairman of the University of Hawaii-Manoa Faculty Senate's Executive Committ...

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Russia Loves Rankings From Newsweek " Paradoxical as it seems, one of the former Soviet states with a more pragmatic approach is Russi...
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